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Robo Prize a claimed PRIZE VALUE of Millions of Dollars. The idea of offering prize-money to help advance technology is not new. Throughout history, prize money has motivated people to achieve great things. Lindbergh would not have been the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic if it wasn't for the prize money. In fact, that was said to be one of his main motivating factor!
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robot is bidding to become the standard research model . New Scientist World view :- Wyrobek hopes that PR2 will do the same for "mobile manipulation". Each of the robot's two arms can lift up to 1.8 kilograms each, and it has two cameras and a 3D laser scanner to help it picture the world around it and identify objects. Wyrobek hopes that PR2 will do the same for "mobile manipulation". Each of the robot's two arms can lift up to 1.8 kilograms each, and it has two cameras and a 3D laser scanner to help it picture the world around it and identify objectsAbility to use Aps, applications that may be downloaded and shared |
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We all knew this day would come and we all knew this would happen first in Japan. And local department store chain operator
Sogo & Seibu is ready to make it possible: You can soon buy robots who look exactly like you.
Right, life-size humanoids. The company isn't that sure about its idea though as it plans to offer just two robots for the time being. Sogo & Seibu says they'll start accepting orders in all of their department stores in Japan as soon as early next month. But if there are three or more people interested in getting a robotic doppelgänger, buyers will be chosen by lot. |
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Now knows how to navigate around people in work areas, a seemingly simple, yet complex task. It can also share and coordinate tasks with other Asimos and dock itself at the recharge station as needed. These abilities enable the Asimo to be more autonomous in a workplace and bring it one step closer to replacing actual humans. Honda developed an intelligence technology that enhances smooth movement by enabling ASIMO to choose between stepping back and yielding the right-of-way or continuing to walk based on the predicted movement of oncoming people. Honda also developed a new intelligence technology related to ASIMO's ability to perform tasks such as carrying a tray and pushing a cart. Furthermore, a new comprehensive system was developed so that multiple ASIMOs can share tasks by adjusting to the situation and work together in coordination to provide uninterrupted service. For example, if one ASIMO is idled while recharging, other ASIMO robots will step in and perform assigned tasks.ASIMO identifies oncoming people through its eye camera, calculates traveling direction and speed, predicts forthcoming movements of oncoming people, and chooses the most appropriate path so that it will not block the movement of others. When there is not enough space, ASIMO will step back and yield the right-of-way. (newlaunches) |
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| Iin Japan scientists at the Honda Research Institute have unveiled the world's first brain to machine interface. Dubbed BMI short for Brain Machine Interface this new technology system will enable people to control robots using their mind. |
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Google X-Prize by building lunar missions complete with robotic rovers capable of roaming the surface of the moon for at least 500 meters and sending video, images and other data back to Earth, according to a statement from the X Prize Foundation. Google Lunar X Prize
ROS is an open-source, meta-operating system for your robot. It provides the services you would expect from an operating system, including hardware abstraction, low-level device control, implementation of commonly-used functionality, message-passing between processes, and package management. Robots Using ROS series for articles on the variety of ways that ROS has been used with robots.
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FIRST Robotics Competition (FRC) is a unique varsity sport of the mind designed to help high-school-aged young people discover how interesting and rewarding the life of engineers and researchers can be.
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A Robot look like a bird, flys like a bird and eats flies, A robot modelled on the herring gull sets a new standard for realistic flying machines. Actually an energy-efficient robot, weighing just 500 grams, that captures the elegance of a bird in flight. The robot, aptly named "SmartBird".
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Plenty of robots can fly -- but none can fly like a real bird. That is, until Markus Fischer and his team at Festo built SmartBird, a large, lightweight robot, modeled on a seagull, that flies by flapping its wings. A soaring demo fresh from TEDGlobal 2011. |
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Aerodynamic SmartBird flight model - Bird flight This is made possible by an active articulated torsional drive unit, which in combination with a complex control system attains an unprecedented level of efficiency in flight operation. Festo has thus succeeded for the first time in creating an energy-efficient technical adaptation of this model from nature. |
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Yuta Sugiura and his colleagues at the Graduate School of Media Design, Keio
University, have developed a new control scheme for robots and virtual characters called Walky for the iPhone. Rather than using a cumbersome
game controller or keyboard, which may pose a problem for novice users, they can use Walky to control walking, turning, jumping, kicking, and
other actions through simple finger gestures on the iPhone's touch screen.
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Norris Labs Steve Norris, Boston, MA, wrote in with his latest project: a robot that'll bring you a beer.
The Beverage Delivery System (BDS) is an ambitious project of mine to create
a fully automated inter-home delivery system. Anyone who has built a robot
has, at one point or another, been asked the question "but can it bring me a
beer?"; I'm sure that like me, roboticists all over the world have grown
weary of this question. The Beverage Delivery System is the answer to this
age old problem, a problem that has plagued mankind since the invention of
the canned beverage. Baxter is the transport component of my Beverage Delivery System (BDS). Supporting Baxter is a fixed location dispenser robot called RoboFridge. You can think of a RoboFridge as a kind of soda vending machine that does not require money. Like a real vending machine RoboFridge supports the dispensing of canned beverages. The concept of the BDS could even be extended to non-food items like medications, DVDs and books. The BDS process starts when a user requests an item using a simple remote control. Baxter is activated from his sleep mode and navigates to RoboFridge using a variety of navigation techniques. These include dead reckoning using encoders, IR beacons, and line following. Once he arrives Baxter will initiate a docking sequence with RoboFridge. After docking, RoboFridge deposits the canned beverage into Baxter's cargo area. Baxter then undocks and navigates back to the thirsty user to deliver the beverage. Finally I can get a frosty cold beverage delivered to me in my favorite easy chair without any effort or argument! |
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Issac Asimov's Three Laws of Robotics are a set of three rules written by Isaac Asimov, which almost all positronic robots appearing in his fiction must obey. Introduced in his 1942 short story "Runaround", although foreshadowed in a few earlier stories, the Laws state the following :-
A Robot Bill of Rights. (Ethical code for robots in works).
Ethics for the Robot Age - Should bots carry weapons? Should they win patents? Questions we must answer as automation advances. View by Jordan Pollack. Wired Magazine (January 2005; Issue 13.01). "My definition of a robot is any device controlled by software that can work 24/7 and put people out of work. The machines are not intelligent. ... In case you missed them, today's most popular robots are ATMs and computer printers. While our hopes for and fears of robots may be overblown, there is plenty to worry about as automation progresses. The future will have many more robots, and they'll most certainly be much more advanced. This raises important ethical questions that we must begin to confront. 1. Should robots be humanoid? ... 2. Should humans become robots? ... 4. Should robots eat? ... 6. Should robots carry weapons? ..."
A new set of laws has been proposed to govern operations by killer robots. (PDF format), The ideas were floated by John S Canning, an engineer at the Naval Surface Warfare Centre, Dahlgren Division an American weapons-research and test establishment. Mr Canning's Concept of Operations for Armed Autonomous Systems .
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A news release from Sandia National Labs discusses the fall and rise of the human brain as a model for computers. They suggest a waning interest in the brain after IBM's supercomputer defeated Gary Kasparov in chess. But the brain is getting more respect these days, in part because of the rapid increase in knowledge about how it works. Some researchers now believe that brain-inspired computers could lead to a new industrial revolution. It's not that the brain is fast, but it is powerful and flexible. From the news release:
Slow signal speed didnât faze Christof Koch, chief scientific officer of Allen Institute for Brain Science. âI have a modest proposal,â he told the group. âImagine a 1-kilogram, three-dimensional block of silicon, or stacks of chips, all with 10 kilohertz clocks and each consuming microwatts of power. Thereâs much more silicon, and therefore itâs very expensive and heavy, like the brain! But, much less cost for heat sinks, much less air conditioning.â
The article goes on to question whether this is really the right approach and whether brain-like pattern-matching is actually well-suited to handle the sorts of problems we want to solve. Cultural and ethic questions are also brought up. Whatever the answers to these questions, it seems inevitable that the massive amounts of new knowledge about the human brain will influence the design of future computers in some way.
In episode #130, interviewer AJung talks with Peter Asaro (an Assistant Professor at The New School and affiliated with The Center for Internet and Society at Stanford Law School) about the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots, a consortium of NGOs working to secure an international ban on autonomous weapons systems. This interview follows closely on an article about the Campaign, coauthored by AJung, which itself followed Robohub's focus on Robots and warfare.
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Via FreeIO.org comes news of a new open hardware robot: the official Arduino Robot. The Arduino Robot will be on sale at the Maker Faire in San Mateo immediately but will be generally available for online orders starting in July. The robot has two ATmega32u4 microprocessors. It has a standard differential drive arrangement with two DC motors but apparently no encoders. Sensors include a compass and five bottom-facing IR sensors for line following. There are several push buttons and potentiometers for input and, for output, a speaker and LCD screen. Multiple prototyping areas are available for adding your own sensors and actuators. The MAKE blog ran an interesting account of how the designers of this robot went from knowing nothing about robotics to designing this beginner robot for kids in just a few years. The most important aspect of the Arduino Robot is that, like other Arduino hardware, it's under a free license:
As always with Arduino, every element of the platform â hardware, software and documentation â is freely available and open-source. This means you can learn exactly how it's made and use its design as the starting point for your own robots.
There's already a lot of technical info available including the EAGLE CAD files for both boards, and documentation on the new Robot library that's included with the Arduino IDE 1.0.5 and later. We look forward to hearing more about this robot or doing a review if a one should end finding it's way to the Robots.net testing lab. For more about other open source robot platforms, see the recent FreeIO article, The State of Free Hardware for Robotics.
This edition of best robot photos of the week includes a US Army recon robot, some shabby chic robot art, a well-endowed female junkbot, a robot arm at NYC Resistor, another robotics amusements. Every week we post a collection of the best robot photos submitted by our readers to our robots.net flickr group. Why? Because everyone likes to see cool new robots! Want to see your robot here? Post it to flickr and add it to the robots.net flickr group. It's easy! If you're not already a flickr member, it's free and easy to sign up. Read on to see the best robot photos of the week!
Professor Ăner Tan has released an interesting paper online that will be of interest to roboticists titled, "Development of Bipedal and Quadrupedal Locomotion in Humans from a Dynamical Systems Perspective" (PDF format). It starts with a quick overview of the history of gait analysis, starting with Aristotle's work and the first application of scientific experiments to test gait hypotheses by Gailileo Galilei. The paper focuses on the development of bipedal and quadrupedal walking gaits in humans. I found it particularly interesting that we have apparently inherited the neural systems used for diagonal-sequence quadrupedal locomotion from tetrapods that existed over 400 million years ago (pictured above). The paper goes over what we know about neural central pattern generators (CPGs) and self-organization of complex biological systems. From the paper:
"In contrast to the theory of stage-like motor and cognitive development, the perspective of behavioral-motor development as a self-organized process seems to be more plausible to explain why and how infants walk within a particular environment. That is, a previously coded neural network, i.e., neural coding, seems to be unlikely, because of the lack of precise point-to-point wiring in the central nervous system with immense overlaps of dendritic and axonal arbors. The integrative neuroscience emphasizes the 'inside-out' and 'outside-in' approaches for the understanding of locomotor control."
The paper covers a number of current theories on how gaits emerge in normal and abnormal human development. Each theory is examined from the perspective of what we know about dynamic systems (or dynamical systems as the kids like to call them these days). Lots of interesting information here for anyone working with bipedal and quadrupedal gaits in robotics.
Lots of interesting robot news stacking up here. Where to start...
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The history of computers is the history of abstraction. Early calculating machines, like Leibniz's Stepped Reckoner, hid the calculating process from the user, but still required the user to input numbers and provided numbers as output. With the advent of Turing-complete machines, we reached the first major abstraction level of using symbols to represent things. A paper by Federico Gobbo and Marco Benini titled, The Minimal Levels of Abstraction in the History of Modern Computing (PDF format), goes a bit further. It takes up the notion of thinking about modern machines in terms of the relation between operators, programmers, users, and computers as an interconnected informational organism or inforg, so that we can consider further levels of abstraction that have emerged. From the paper:
This point (symbolic representation) was the big change of the modern era, where the universal computing machinery started to hide some symbolic interpretation of numbers through abstractions and organisations in parallel, where each LoO (Level of Organization) is the externalisation of the correspondent LoA (Level of Abstraction). The more computers developed, the more information got hidden and needed reconstruction on demand: to correctly explain this historical process, we [propose] here a constructive based formalism
The authors consider the gradual increase in abstraction as more and more details about the underlying computation are hidden from the human elements of the inforg. First, the Von Neumann Machine, then the concept of an Operating System and applications. Then applications are abstracted into a visible part (the GUI) and an invisible part. Additional abstractions are introduced for interactivity, multitasking, distributed processing. As the abstractions accumulate, the separation between humans in the inforg (the programmer and the user) increase. How will robotics and AI affect this evolving relationship? For more historical background on their ideas, see From Computing Machineries to Cloud Computing: The Minimal Levels of Abstraction of Inforgs through History (PDF format).
While they don't yet have on-board sensors, processors, or power, these tiny flying robots are nevertheless a dramatic step forward in the effort to create autonomous flying robots modeled on flies or bees. Part of the Micro Air Vehicles Project (a.k.a. Robobees) of the Harvard Microrobotics Laboratory, within the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, in collaboration with the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering. Both the physical design, which provides the ability to apply torque around all three axis, and the control algorithms were created by a team composed of graduate students Kevin Ma and Pakpong Chirarattananon and postdoc fellow Sawyer Fuller, under the direction of Professor Robert Wood, himself the subject of a previous Robots Podcast episode. They share authorship of the paper Controlled Flight of a Biologically Inspired, Insect-Scale Robot which appeared in the May 3rd issue of Science.
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This edition of best robot photos of the week includes an Officer Mac robot from the Computer History Museum, Colin Angle's telepresence bot, an industrial cheese robot, a Dalek, a robo-dragonfly, a sexy wearable R2-D2, an octopod drone, some giant robot ants, and other assorted treats. Every week we post a collection of the best robot photos submitted by our readers to our robots.net flickr group. Why? Because everyone likes to see cool new robots! Want to see your robot here? Post it to flickr and add it to the robots.net flickr group. It's easy! If you're not already a flickr member, it's free and easy to sign up. Read on to see the best robot photos of the week!
Ornithopers have been around for many years and robots based on the concept are not new. But, according to a UMD news release, researchers there have made some new breakthroughs on this old idea by finally designing a robot bird that independently controls the flapping of each wing. This means the robot can fly much like a real bird, adapting to wind speed changes and performing aerobatic maneuvers. From Professors S. K. Gupta's blog post about the project:
Real birds are able to precisely control each wing during flight which enables them to do all sorts of aerobatic maneuvers. This has been a very difficult feat to achieve in bird-inspired robots. In fact, prior efforts (including our own) utilized only simple wing motions where both wings are driven by a single motor. So motions of two wings are coupled. Minor adjustments can be made in wing motions by using small secondary actuators. But two wings cannot move completely independently. In the past, any major change in the wing motion had to be accomplished by doing a hardware change on the ground. Clearly this limited how close a robotic bird came to the real bird in terms of the flight characteristics.
So far, the Robo Raven has flown in 10 MPH winds, and performed realistically enough to provoke a local hawk into attacking it. The robot is capable of carry a small payload and flown with a video camera attached. The robot can also be launched from a ground vehicle or ground robot. For more see the Maryland Robotics Center article Flapping Wing Miniature Air Vehicles. For the history and specifications of this and other bird-inspired robots built at UMD, see the article Flapping Wing Micro Air Vehicle Designs by SK Gupta's Group. Gupta has also written an interesting survey of similar robots titled, "A review of bird-inspired flapping wing miniature air vehicle designs" (PDF format). And you knew we had to have video of this bot in action, right? Read on to watch it fly!
Given our current understanding of how mirror neurons and human emotion works, a new study from the University of Duisburg Essen should come as no surprise. Astrid Rosenthal-von der PĂźtten and other researchers used fMRI to measure the reaction in human test subjects who watched video of a Pleo robot being either tortured or treated with affection. They also watched video of a fellow human treated either badly or affectionately. The test subjects exhibited similar reactions to the treatment of both the robot and the human, with only the intensity of their emotion varying. The bigger question, it seems to me, is whether we understand emotion and empathy well enough to add those qualities to our robots, so they'll feel empathy toward us as well. The original news release (in German) is available on the University website. An English language version is available on Eurekalert. IEEE Spectrum posted a more in-depth description of the research. And, if you can bare to watch, read on for the Pleo torture video.
You may recall our 2012 story, The Universe, The Internet, and the Brain about a paper identifying similarities between the structure and dynamics of the brain and the universe. Now, a new paper from Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross proposes a more dramatic connection: universes that produce more entropy (or disorder) over their lifetimes tend to have more favorable properties for the existence of intelligent beings. The paper describes how two attributes of intelligence, tool use and social cooperation, emerge spontaneously in simple physical system due to "causal entropic forces". According to the paper, these forces provide the motivation behind adaptive behavior. From the paper:
Recent advances in ďŹelds ranging from cosmology to computer science have hinted at a possible deep connection between intelligence and entropy maximization. In cosmology, the causal entropic principle for anthropic selection has used the maximization of entropy production in causally connected space-time regions as a thermodynamic proxy for intelligent observer concentrations in the prediction of cosmological parameters. In geoscience, entropy production maximization has been proposed as a unifying principle for nonequilibrium processes underlying planetary development and the emergence of life. In computer science, maximum entropy methods have been used for inference in situations with dynamically revealed information, and strategy algorithms have even started to beat human opponents for the ďŹrst time at historically challenging high look-ahead depth and branching factor games like Go by maximizing accessible future game states
For more details, including the math, see the short paper, which was published in the 19 April 2013 issue of Physical Review Letters, Causal Entropic Forces (PDF format). You can also read a longer Inside Science article about the ideas in the paper along with comments from other researchers, Physicist Proposes New Way To Think About Intelligence. Or read on to see a short video showing software demonstrations of simple systems driven by entropic forces that spontaneously learn pole balancing, a simplified type of tool use, and social interaction.
I returned from a few days at the VEX Robotics World Championship to find our inbox full of news, so let's start things back up with a news roundup! (and, yes, pics of the VEX championship will be posted in a few days).
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In Robots Podcast episode #128, interviewer Per talks with Pericle Salvini from Scuola Superiore SantâAnna about his work with social, ethical, and legal issues in robotics. He tells us about the RoboLaw project that will provide advice to the European Union as it creates laws concerning robotics.
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Researchers at the University of Virginia are testing UAVs as potential replacements for weather balloons which could simplify some types of weather and climate measurements. A recent UVA news release describes the use of a hexcopter "drone" that rises up to 30 meters into the boundary layer of the atmosphere while taking precise sensor readings. From the news release:
It will measure humidity and temperature, and possibly one day wind speed and direction. Currently, we usually have to take these measurements with a helium balloon, and conditions can be difficult. The copter is a way to take such measurements more continuously and easily.
This idea sounds similar in principal to the ocean float robots, which move between the ocean surface and depths measuring conditions and report the sensor data back to researchers. Right now this UAV is being used primarily as a proof-of-concept model in the classroom at University of Virginia's Department of Environmental Sciences. If the use of UAVs for weather measurements become widespread it could lead to another very accurate source for global climate data. For more, read on to see a video of weather drone in action.
MAKE brings the do-it-yourself mindset to all the technology in your life. MAKE is loaded with exciting projects that help you make the most of your technology at home and away from home. This is a magazine that celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your own will. (Quite a few mini-robots to build in a weekend.)
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Robotics researchers from around the world gathered in San Francisco to share their work at the 2011 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. SmartPlanet correspondent Sumi Das gets friendly with robots that are flying to greater heights and interacting in more human-like ways. |
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Interested in sensing things without using sight? So are the researchers at the University of Sheffield and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, who have developed the Scratchbot robot that can navigate by waving around a set of 18 whiskers. To design their sensors, they began by reverse-engineering a rat's whiskers using high-speed video cameras. After studying how the rat used the whiskers, they developed a mechanical system that was able to perform in a similar manner. The larger whiskers were then outfitted with a magnet and hall effect sensors, which allowed their motion to be observed. Then, instead of developing a traditional software-based motion control system, the researchers developed a neurologically-inspired system that uses an FPGA to simulate how the rat's brain actually reacts to whisker movement. The result is a robot capable of sensing the world around it using only touch. As a sight-based organism, I find it humbling that there are so many other ways of navigating the world that do not involve light. In this case, the whiskers on many creatures are sensitive enough to detect subtle textures and patterns in the world around them, and this works well as a replacement for vision in navigation. Cool stuff! [via neatorama] |
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BBC News Swarming fire ants could be models for rescue robots NBCNews.com (blog) And researchers believe these new findings about their curious locomotion could give engineers lessons for building automated search-and-rescue robots designed to hunt...
This flexible new camera can see even better than bugs do (Robotic Insect Eyes Destined for Next-Gen Micro Drones - IEEE Spectrum http://t.co/hOew4oPXKO via @IEEESpectrum)...
Army of Underwater Vehicles to Unravel Ocean Mysteries LiveScience.com For instance, there's a possibility that alien life exists on distant exoplanets, but scientists know for sure that hundreds or thousands of undiscovered species lurk beneath...
"How hard could it be to make a robot bird whose wings can flap independently of each other?" Institute for Systems Research, Clark School of Engineering, University of Maryland
In effort to host "one of the most protected sports events in history," Brazil is enlisting 30 camera-equipped PackBots for added security.
T.H.O.R. (Tactical Hazardous Operations Robot) is a humanoid robot being developed at RoMeLa (Robotics & Mechanisms Laboratory) at Virginia Tech for disaster...
Drone Dudes are a team of filmmakers and designers who use RC copters to capture stunning aerial cinematography. In this video we interview Andrew Petersen and Jeff Blank, who operate a radial octocopter capable of lifting cameras up to 12lbs.
These robots can assemble your Swedish furniture, without even looking at the instructions (MIT Robots Can Assemble Your IKEA Furniture For You http://t.co/MoO5Se2VAX)...
A group at Tokyo Institute of Technology, led by Dr. Osamu Hasegawa, has succeeded in making further advances with SOINN, their machine learning algorithm, which can now use the internet to learn how to perform new tasks. The system, which is under development as an artificial brain for autonomous mental development robots, is currently being used to learn about objects in photos using image searches on the internet. It can also take aspects of other known objects and combine them to make guesses about objects it doesn't yet recognize.
Some believe in a utopian future, in which humans can transcend their physical limitations with the aid of machines. But others think humans will eventually relinquish most of their abilities and gradually become absorbed into artificial intelligence (AI)-based organisms, much like the energy making machinery in our own cells.
Lego bricks are getting cozy with the iPhone and other Apple devices in the latest incarnation of the Mindstorms robotics kit.
Flies are some of the most agile and maneuverable creatures on Earth. While some technologies like airplanes and helicopters mimic the motions of flies, rese...
Killer robots that can attack targets without any human input 'should not have the power of life and death over human beings,' a new draft U.N. report says. ...
A team at Herriot-Watt University’s Centre for Marine Biodiversity and Biotechnology has launched a Kickstarter campaign to help it develop coralbots that...
A robotics group led by Professor Sylvain Calinon at the Italian Institute of Technology is teaching robots how to deal with real-world problems.
Open robotics platform with ready to use hardware and software modules.
Technology can help users "touch" virtual objects and distant environments as though they were real and within reach.
The fact that robots can find their way through a maze without complex navigation strategies suggests the same is true for ants.
A new stabilization system for the Phantom remote-controlled flying drone helps it capture stunning landscapes and maneuver in tight spaces.
NASA plans to lasso asteroid with robotic spaceship so astronauts can explore it, a Fla. senator says. (#robotics NASA plans to lasso asteroid with robotic spaceship so astronauts can explore ... - The Denver Chann...
Haptic technology is breaking new and promising ground in the field of surgical robots. Learn more about haptics and how it is changing the idea of senses.
A 170 pounds, six-foot long robot jellyfish named Cyro is now patrolling U.S. coastal waters.
New Jersey Institute of Technology's Simon Garnier and other researchers have used tiny robots called Alices to mimic the behavior of ants, something they say (RT @sugusiceruk: http://t.co/Kbol3eMHDx...
Swarms of robots acting together to carry out jobs could provide new opportunities for humans to harness the power of machines.
With the BionicOpter, Festo has technically mastered the highly complex flight characteristics of the dragonfly. Just like its model in nature, this ultralig...
Robots are here to stay. They will be smarter, more versatile, more autonomous, and more like us in many ways. We humans will need to adapt to keep up.
The amphibious robot mimics the crawling and swimming movements of the salamander so that it can easily transition between land and water.
The Arlington city Police Department has received permission from the FAA for that allows the use of UAVs under certain conditions over the city.
T. R. I, Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies for human-robot collaboration in education, toys, entertainment and art. (Don't underrate because of the work Toy)
RoboGames (Formally ROBOlympics), is the world's largest open robot competition. We invite the best minds from around the world to compete.
Open Directory - Computers: Robotics: Building
Robot Haven A Refuges for Robots.
Robot Group TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art. Through the synergy of fusing art and technology.
Triangle Amateur Robotics (TAR) is dedicated to creating personal robots for fun and knowledge. (North Carolina State University campus)
Unclebob Robotech. With a long term goal is to research and make robots that would help us in our daily life just like personal computers. Notice robots aren’t in our home at all. With the technology we have today, how can robots not be helping us more? In Japan the populations are ageing. Japanese are trying to make robots that would help elderly people with household tasks e.g. lifting people on and off the bed. I believe I can also make this kind of robots. I have an idea for a robot that can monitor our eyes, facial expressions and emotions in front of our computer and help us with our work. I can only do such project if I have more time and fundings. Please support Wahoo project, (This is a smartphone controlled Robot that will walk with two legs. He is roughly 15cm high, 9cm diameter Android looking robot made with a 3D Printing. The legs and hip are power by 9g servos. He uses 6 x AAA batteries placed in the legs. We will consider either bluetooth or infrared for communicating with the smartphone. Makible), to make this dream to come true! Uses some 3D Printing to create Robot Parts
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Robodance 4 works with i-Sobot and Wiimote Robosapien Dance Machine. MAKE: Blog pal, and author of Robodance, Robert Oschler, is in the process of updating this free Robosapien control program so that it can also work with the new Tomy i-Sobot, using the IR connection on the robot and the Nintendo Wii remote controller (Wiimote). This video offers a sneak peak of Robodance 4's capabilities. [Read this article] [Comment on this article
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Obstacle Avoiding Walking Robot) This Instructable shows how to make a little walking robot which avoids obstacles (much like many commercially available options). But what's the fun in buying a toy when you can instead start with a motor, sheet of plastic and pile of bolts and proceed to build your own. Well I hope you share this attitude and please enjoy. |
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HOW TO - Build a robot arm (robot arm clock videos)
Society of Robots has a great video of a robot arm-clocks The robot arm is probably the most mathematically complex robot you could ever build. As such, this tutorial cant tell you everything you need to know. Instead, I will take shortcuts and just talk about the bear minimum you need to know to build an effective robot arm. Please bear with the math . . . enjoy!To get you started, here is a video of a robot arm assignment I had when I took Robotic Manipulation back in college. My group programmed it to type the current time into the keyboard . . . (lesson learned, don't crash robot arms into your keyboard at full speed while testing) HOW TO - Build a robot arm Link. |
| In The Future, All Break-Dancing B-Boys Will Be Robots | Mobile robot does CNC, (More CNC) :- |
| : | Sparky - Autonomous Telepresence Robot Gomi Style, they build a low-cost telepresence robot. There are some "problems" with this video. It's not an "autonomous" robot if *you* control it and the show is called Gomi Style, and they say the robot is made of junk they have lying around, but then, it's made with the Vex robotics system, the MAKE Controller, a Mac Mini, an iSight camera, and an LCD monitor. Still, they manage to make a pretty decent telepresence bot for probably under $1000. |
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telepresence.Get free software and instructions, plus how-to videos, hardware
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videochat ROV builders. What is Telepresence? Telepresence refers to technologies that allow a person to see, hear and sense a location other than their true location, as well as have an effect in that remote location. Commonly referred to as videochat, telepresence is used by surgeons, NASA scientists and rescue workers as well as family and friends in separate locations. But why Sparky? SPARKY is a rough acronym for Self Portrait Artifact Roving Chassis. But Im not technical? How can I build a telepresenece robot? We provide all the software and easy to follow, step-by-step instructions that will walk you through the process of building and running a robot, using things like Mac Minia's, Roomba vacuum's, Vex, Erector set parts and assorted found objects. |
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TED India, Pranav Mistry demos several tools that help the physical world interact with the world of data -- including a deep look at his SixthSense device and a new, paradigm-shifting paper "laptop." In an onstage Q&A, Mistry says he'll open-source the software behind SixthSense, to open its possibilities to all. About Pranav Mistry The inventor of SixthSense, a wearable device that enables new interactions between the real world and the world of data.Pranav Mistry Website TED Ideas worth spreading
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This demo -- from Pattie Maes' lab at MIT, spearheaded by Pranav Mistry Was the buzz of Ted. It's a wearable device with a projector that paves the way for profound interaction with our environment. Imagine "Minority Report" and then some. About Pattie Maes At the MIT Media Lab's new Fluid Interfaces Group, Pattie Maes researches the tools we use to work with information and connect with one another.Pattie Maes is an associate professor in MIT Media Lab Program in Media Arts and Sciences Ted Ideas worth spreading |
Large Database of Robotics videos displays of innovation.
Robotics fairs and exhibitions
Robots Dreams Robot Video's Robots Resources
BotJunkie Obsessively chronicles Man's inevitable descent into cybernetic slavery :-
Jonesing For Robot News
Hexapod Dance-Off
video from the Austrian Hexapod Dance-Off. (Not really a robot but great fun).
The Hexapod moves are sure expressive organised by BotJunkie-
| Pop-up Fabrication of the Harvard Monolithic Bee (Mobee) MicroroboticsLab YouTube Channel | The Harvard Monolithic Bee. (Mobee). A millimeter-scale flapping wing robotic insect produced using Printed Circuit MEMS (PC-MEMS) techniques. (Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS). This video describes the manufacturing process, including pop-up book inspired assembly. This work was funded by the NSF, the Wyss Institute, and the ASEE. Music: D-Song by Bonobo Harvard Universitty"Monolithic fabrication of millimeter-scale machines" and "Pop-up book MEMS" Micro Air Vehicles Project. INSPIRED by the biology of a bee and the insect’s hive behavior ... Aim to push advances in miniature robotics and the design of compact high-energy power sources; spur innovations in ultra-low-power computing and electronic “smart” sensors; and refine coordination "Pop-up book MEMS" is the cover article for the Nov. 2011 issue of J. Micromechanics and Microengineering Wyss Institute, At Harvard Universitty. Aims to discover the engineering principles that Nature uses to build living things, and harnesses these insights to create biologically inspired materials and devices that will revolutionize healthcare and create a more sustainable world. In medicine, the Institute is developing innovative materials, devices, and disease reprogramming technologies that emulate how living tissues and organs self-organize and naturally regulate themselves. Understanding of how living systems build, recycle, and control is also guiding efforts focused on development of entirely new approaches for constructing buildings, converting energy, controlling manufacturing, and improving our environment. ASEE, American Society for Engineering Education. The purpose of this Society shall be the advancement of education in all of its functions which pertain to engineering and allied branches of science and technology, including the processes of teaching and learning, counseling, research, extension services and public relations. In furtherance of this purpose, the Society shall serve its members as a common agency of stimulation and guidance |
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Field Robotics Center the future of field robotics by creating automated work machines for land, sea, air and space. Carnegie Mellon University
TeleRAD is a radiation survey robot. The name stands for distance Radiation Absorbed Dose or in other words detecting radiation levels remotely. TeleRAD uses a Geiger counter to detect radiation levels.
Distributed Boundary Coverage with a Swarm of Miniature Robots. investigate collaborative coverage with a self-organizing swarm of minimalist robots. The inspection of the compressor section of a (jet) turbine engine is a motivating case study (see IROS'06 and BSSAC'07 for a high-level overview).
Robotics and Automation, 2001. Proceedings 2001 ICRA. IEEE International Conference
Your first robot - the beetle robot
How to build your first PICAXE robot
Total Robots Total Robots BEAM. The term BEAM is an acronym for Biology, Electronics, Aesthetics and Mechanics. BEAM robotics was invented (and is patented) by Dr Mark W. Tilden whilst he was a student at University in Canada. Includes OOPic.
How-To: Build BEAM Vibrobots The key to Vibrobot movement is a motor (or motors) that employs an unbalanced weight. Pager and other motors used to create vibration alerts in consumer electronics use this technique. As the motor shaft spins, the weight on the shaft, being off-kilter, makes the motor, and therefore the entire pager, vibrate. Hook such a motor up to a little robo-critter with four fixed legs, and when the motor fires and the weight starts spinning, the bot will skitter across the floor.
BEAM robotics is the brain child of Mark W. Tilden who is currently working at "Los Alamos National Laboratory" in Los Alamos, New Mexico, US. BEAM robotics as described in the BEAM rule book: 1/: A description of what aspects a roving robot creature could contain. BEAM is a triple acronym which stands for :-| Biology | Electronics | Aesthetics | Mechanics |
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A Beginner's Guide to BEAM - The BEAM design approach creates nimble robots from simple components, with no programming required.
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Canadian artist
Jessica Field.
Jessica makes these wonderful, funky little robo-critters, some BEAMish,
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Slarbotics offers competition robot kits, solar-powered robots, books, electronic components, motors, parts and information on the expanding field of BEAM Robotics. Enjoy our website, and we welcome your comments.
Solar Powered Picaxe Microbot (Vibrobot) This microbot is also called a vibrobot because it vibrates in order to generate horizontal motion.
Solarbotics is a BEAM robotics community server. Complete BEAMbot Circuits BEAM From the Ground Up
A Beginner's Guide to BEAM (Makezine)
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HOW TO - Make a Bristlebot a tiny directional vibrobot made from a toothbrush! The BristleBot is a simple and tiny robot with an agenda. The ingredients? One toothbrush, a battery, and a pager motor. The result? Serious fun. The BristleBot is our take on the popular vibrobot, a simple category of robot that is controlled by a single vibrating (eccentric) motor. Some neat varieties include the mint-tin version as seen in Make Magazine (check the video), and the kid's art bot: a vibrobot with pens for feet. |
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Robot Arm With Fluidic Muscles. Airic's_arm is a robotic arm inspired by your own arm. The company describes it as a "combination of mechatronics and the biological model of a human being." The mechanical foundation - the "skeleton" - of Festo's Airic's arm is literally a metal version of the human skeletal structure. The radius and ulna (primary bones of the forearm), the metacarpals (hand and fingers) and the shoulder and shoulder blade are duplicated |
Bittybot help you make smaller robots.
Robot Education. The Institute for Personal Robots in Education (IPRE) applies and evaluates robots as a context for computer science education.
Spider Robot Project Page An 'in-progress' project involving the addition of a PIC micro brain to a small robot.
PIC Guide (With Links)
Proton Geeks Proton PIC Users Group
PICAXE microcontrollers are exciting, low-cost, re-programmable chips that can be used as low-cost 'brains' in many kinds of electronic project. For further information browse the index bar on the left hand side of the screen.
PIC & Electronic Development on a Shoestring
ooPIC, (Object-Oriented PIC), is a different approach in microcontrollers that uses objects to control the attached hardware while the application program focuses on controlling the objects. Programmed in Basic, C, or Java syntax styles. Uses Object-oriented concepts. More Object oriented programming links.
| Programmable Paper. Amazing program paper into shapes, paper aeroplane, etc | Amazing !!! Programmable
Paper. Amazing program paper into shapes, paper aeroplane, etc
Programmable Paper. You can program paper to make shapes, paper dart aeroplane, etc, (OK, maybe it's not quite paper), but watch this fold itself into shape under programming control. A group of researchers from Harvard and MIT have pushed us closer to a world of programmable matter. Their approach is a self-folding surface that can take on almost any shape. The above video from ScienceMag shows the surface turning into a small sailboat and paper plane. [via slashdot] Based on the ancient art of origami, the sheets are edged by foil actuators--thin, solid-state motors--that contract or expand when they receive an electric current from flexible electronic circuits embedded in the sheets. After they achieve their preprogrammed shape, the sheets are held in place by tiny magnets on the edges of the fold joints. Abstract: Programmable matter is a material whose properties can be programmed to achieve specific shapes or stiffnesses upon command. This concept requires constituent elements to interact and rearrange intelligently in order to meet the goal. This paper considers achieving programmable sheets that can form themselves in different shapes autonomously by folding. Past approaches to creating transforming machines have been limited by the small feature sizes, the large number of components, and the associated complexity of communication among the units. We seek to mitigate these difficulties through the unique concept of self-folding origami with universal crease patterns. This approach exploits a single sheet composed of interconnected triangular sections. The sheet is able to fold into a set of predetermined shapes using embedded actuation. To implement this self-folding origami concept, we have developed a scalable end-to-end planning and fabrication process. Given a set of desired objects, the system computes an optimized design for a single sheet and multiple controllers to achieve each of the desired objects. The material, called programmable matter by folding, is an example of a system capable of achieving multiple shapes for multiple functions |
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Robots is the podcast for news, interviews and discussions on all aspects of robotics.
Doctronics Design & Technology and Electronics Resources. Discovering PICs
74194 Stepper Motor Driver form Model Railroad & Misc. Electronics More Electronics
Manage 5 stepper motors for the LPT signals step-dir Automatically Translated from Russian
OpenServo is an open community-based project started by Mike Thompson with the goal of creating a low-cost digital servo for robotics.
Robot videos and images
Robotics and Other Gizmos Page - Robotics Activities and Links. Includes information, photos, and schematics for building a robots, a robotic computer interface, and other devices. Software is included.
AiboPet and other'Pets (robotic or otherwise)
TeRK. (Telepresence Robot Kit), Educational Robotics - Vehicles for Teaching and Learning.
Clockwork Robot create amazing paper engineering for you. Also create stereoscopic (3D) images for print or web publication
OrionRobot Robotics resource and community website. There is a great deal of technical, creative and background information on robotics for hobbyists and even those more experienced. Some areas of the site also form a dictionary for some of the terms and concepts used in robotics, electronics, programming, Lego building and engineering.
Foxbox.Nl
:: Lego Mindstorms
Robots And Machines. A lot of Lego Mindstorms Robotics Projects.
EURON ( European Robotics Research Network). It is a community of people with a common interest in working to make better robots.
International Federation of Robotics
Robot Matrix This portal is all about robots/robotics. It delicates to all who are interested in the development of robotics - from beginners to professionals, manufacturers, suppliers, direct end users and even researchers. A comprehensive web portal on robotic technology. It contains both commercial and non-commercial information on robotic technology. More importantly, we always welcome useful user input, feedback or contributions in terms of publish useful articles on Robotics technologies in the portal. Humanoid Robots.
Telepresence Robotkit Educational Robots Vehiculs for teaching and learning.
Carl Kenner's Home Page. Programmable Input Emulator (GlovePIE or PIE). Control Games with Gestures, Speech, and Other Input Devices! With GlovePIE you can now play any game, or control any software or MIDI devices, using whatever controls you want. This includes joysticks, gamepads, mice, keyboards, MIDI input devices, HMDs, Wiimotes, trackers, and of course, Virtual Reality gloves!
Ted Larson (Balancing Robot and other links).
The Trossen Robotics Blog is the place to keep up to date on all the latest product releases and news in robotics.
Surveyor Corporation Surveyor SRV-1 Wireless Mobile Robot with Video for Telepresence, Autonomous and Swarm Operation.
Middle Creek Merchants Robot Page
RoboCup is an international joint project to promote AI, robotics, and related field. It is an attempt to foster AI and intelligent robotics research by providing a standard problem where wide range of technologies can be integrated and examined. RoboCup chose to use soccer game as a central topic of research, aiming at innovations to be applied for socially significant problems and industries.
Robothon a national event that showcases the capabilities and technological developments in robotics from the amateur robotics community. At this event, people from around the world come together to present new robotic technologies, share ideas, meet fellow robotic enthusiasts, show off their robotic creations, and compete in many robotic competitions and activities.
Bryan's Robotics Journal Robotics without the soldering iron.
Converting a Floppy Disk Drive into a Simple Robot Generation5 aims to be the most comprehensive Artificial Intelligence site on the Internet. Community-orientated, Generation5 deals with all AI topics including robotics, neural networks, genetic algorithms, AI programming, home automation and much more.
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Robots wanted Any condition, any type... ROBOTS WANTED: Dead or Alive, Whole or Parts, Please help the virtual robot museum grow! Some of the Robots that I am interested in: HeathKit (HERO JR, HERO 1, HERO 2000, Arm Trainer), Androbots (Topo, BOB, BOB/XA, Fred, and Androman), RB5X, Artec GEMINI, Omnibots, Rhino Robots, MAXX STEELE, NEWTON SynPet, Comro Tot, Marvin Mark I, RoPet, Servitron, ELAMI, CYBER I, HUBOT, Hearoid, Turtles, Etc. Also looking for Robot accesories and technical literature. Please don't throw that old Robot away! Robotic Gallery
Hobby Robotics. Hobby robot building plans, circuits, software and more... (More Blog Links)
Twin Cities Robotics Group A loose affiliation of people interested in robots, located in the Twin Cities Metro area, USA.
STAMP Parallax. A BASIC Stamp microcontroller is a single-board computer that runs the Parallax PBASIC language interpreter in it's microcontroller. The developer's code is stored in an EEPROM, which can also be used for data storage. The PBASIC language has easy-to-use commands for basic I/O, like turning devices on or off, interfacing with sensors, etc. More advanced commands let the BASIC Stamp module interface with other integrated circuits, communicate with each other, and operate in networks. STAMP In Education
Wall-E project controlled by a BS2P40 stamp CPU and for motive power and two robosapienV2 hip motors.
Getting Started with an Accelerometer. (Forums Parallax Basic STAMP, electronic chips etc. Parallax) Acceleration is a measure of how quickly speed changes. Just as a speedometer is a meter that measures speed, an accelerometer is a meter that measures acceleration. You can use the ability to sense acceleration to measure a variety of things that are very useful to electronic and robotic projects and designs. More Forum Links.
nBot Balancing Robot (Also has quite a number of Robot links). (Also has quite a number of Robot links).
Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG), Robot Links Low Cost Gyro-Accelerometer Combo Sensor In building a balancing robot you need a gyroscope unit and an accelerometer unit in order to get it to balance.
CTG robotics Configurable Robotics allows the Designer to configure a robot by selecting from a wide range of interface boards and a variety of base designs to meet any task requirement. By using this configurable system the Designer can quickly assemble a robot and immediately start writing task software.
Ryan Dellanas Robotic Home Page
Autopilot: Do it yourself UAV (Helecopter)
Building Robots with CoachLab II and Tech Card Materials.
Roborama Video's of robots It has never been easier to watch life-like robots video clips : Human, Animal, Toys, any robot!
Stephen Paul Linder. Student Projects.
Get all of the most recent content from popularmechanics.com.
i, Randy Robot Showcase.
URC Robots Universal Robot Controls & Automation (URC)
The Laboratory for Perceptual Robotics (LPR) is in the Computer Science Department at UMass, Amherst.
Lynx Motion intelligently designed, precision engineered robot kits and components.
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The Wooden menace - Robotic Arm. This project is a robotic arm made mostly from Wood. It cost less than $50 to make and has a lot of the functionality that any normal robotic arm would have. It is controlled by a PIC MicroController and cloned PS1 controller. |
RoboPUC is the name of the Branch of Robotics of the School of Engineering of the PUC. This is a group of professors and students, whose objectives are to harness the interest by the robotics by means of the development of projects, works altogether and aids for students. (Translated to English).
Robotic software development. The software for robotic controller is developed in collaboration with the CISAS of University of Padova. (Andrea Bulgarelli's Home Page)
RT Middleware Developed for Realizing Open Robot Architecture. For Creation of New Industry of Service Robotsx
Robot Gossip Blogspot (More Blog Links)
Blog about Robots (More Blog Links)
Curious Cat Science and Engineering Blog Robots (More Blog Links)
Sexy Robot" Used to describe Hajime Sorayama's renditions of the female robot forms which is covered with silver metal, first created in 1979. Initially, Sorayama had the idea to combine robots with eroticism to create the "Sexy Robots". Those are now becoming reality through the work of technicians in robotics labs all over the world. Human female looking robots are called Gynoids (also Fembots) as opposed to Androids which are based on the human male characteristics. This site features all kinds of life-like robots and not only "Sexy Robots". :-)
Environmental Robots Inc. The Home of Ionic Polymer Metal Composites (IPMCs) and Polymeric Nanocomposites.
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Introduce Themselves. ITU Telecom World 2006, Hong Kong. NEC is showing their robot PaPeRo. In the video, PaPeRo tell us its name in Japanese, English, Chinese (Putonghua), German and French; afterwards they dance together. Watch the video. |
Phoenix Area Robotics eXperimenters
The Robotics Laboratory. (Department of Mechanical Engineering). University of Maryland. Affiliated with Center for Automation Research is the Robotics Laboratory of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, which is directed by Prof. Jackson C.S. Yang. It was established in 1983, with primary activities in education, research and industrial interaction.
MIT's Robotic Life Research group Techtv (Video's) Upload yours. More Videos to Watch and Video PublishingUC Berkeley Robotics and Intelligent Machines Lab
Robots, Robotics And Automation for Talking Electronics
Robostrider The study of live water striders led us to attempt the construction of a mechanical water strider "Robostrider". The challenge was to build a device capable of self propulsion light enough to be supported by surface tension. At the scale where surface tension is important, the weight of a handmade water strider increases with complexity; therefore it was important to develop a very simple driving mechanism.
Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project
The ME2011 Robot Project is a chance for students in ME2011 Introduction to Engineering to be creative, to face a substantial challenge, to show off, and to stretch themselves as designers.
Software Verification and Validation Plan (SVVP) for the Robot Development Project (RDP). The goal of the project is to deliver a software package capable of controlling the ASEA Irb6 robot at the faculty of Electrical Engineering of Eindhoven University of Technology. The project and the documents to be delivered are organised according to the ESA Software Engineering Standards [ESA]). The project's verification and validation activities are described this SVVP, it also contains plans for testing the software.
Field And Space Robotics Laboratory Microbots project studies a new mission concept for planetary exploration, based on the deployment of a large number of small spherical mobile robots (microbots) over vast areas of a planet's surface and subsurface, including structures such as caves and near-surface crevasses. Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Microrobotics and Millirobotics Research. Micromechanical Flying Insect (MFI) Project.
Biomimetic Millisystem Lab harness features of animal manipulation, locomotion, sensing, actuation, mechanics, dynamics, and control strategies to radically improve millirobot capabilities. Research in the lab ranges from fundamental understanding of mechanical principles to novel fabrication techniques to system integration of autonomous millirobots.
Autonomous Jumping Microrobots
Precise Miniature Robots and Desktop Flexible Production
Society of Robots (Includes The $50 Robot Tutorial) Also Experimental Robot Platform (ERP)
Neuromechanics of Multifunctionality during Rejection is a multidisciplinary graduate program at Case Western Reserve University. Neuro-mechanical systems include natural, man-made, or hybrid systems combining neural controllers and mechanical peripheries. Examples include natural organisms, biologically inspired robots, and neuroprostheses for restoring motor function in the disabled.
Biologically Inspired Robotics Lab dedicated to the advancement of the field of robotics using insights gained through the study of biological mechanisms.
The Robot Scientist Project A multidisciplinary research project involving expertise from Computer Science and Microbiology,
Robotics Research Topics. Roadmap of AIM Lab Robot Development.
Robot Enthusiasts! Firmly Founded. And Proudly Growing with over 4,000 members from across the globe.
The Robotics Research Laboratory is part of the Center for Robotics and Embedded Systems (CRES) at USC. Robot Movies
Physical computing. It's an approach to learning how humans communicate through computers that starts by considering how humans express themselves physically.
Techgeek Building a Robotic Community.
Jeff's All Things Robot, (plenty of links) Jeff Robots
Machine Brain Robots and Smart Machines.
X Robots Robots for all occasions.
Build a working robot Boys Life
The Robot Hall of Fame recognizes excellence in robotics technology worldwide and honors the fictional and real robots that have inspired and made breakthrough accomplishments in robotics. The Robot Hall of Fame was created by Carnegie Mellon University in April 2003 to call attention to the increasing contributions from robots to human society
Pololu, your source for robot kits, robot parts, and robot electronics.
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Vivid Videos Demonstrate SuperBot Progress. SuperBot Robot Can Construct Itself
Types of Robots. Some Ways to Use Robots. (NASA)
Robotics Jet Propulsion Laboratory Mobility and Robotic Systems. NASA
Portland Area Robotics Society An Oregon non-profit formed to help those interested in learning about and building robots.
Robotics and Automation Laboratory at the University of Western Australia, Perth.
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Open University Robotics Outreach Group Dallas Personal Robotics Group Machine Intelligence Group, India Beagle 2 - A UK robot lander on Mars Robot Space Explorers - An educators and enthusiasts guide 5 Strange Japanese Robots Hacked Gadgets SuperDroid Robots provide a wide range of robot kits. Robotics Engineering program at WPI HRIWeb: The Human-Robot Interaction Site Hardware Guides, BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals |
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Swarmanoid is a heterogeneous robot swarm in which different groups of robots have different capabilities: some robots are specialized in manipulating objects and climbing, some in moving on the ground and transporting objects, and some in flying and observing the environment from above. This video presents the Swarmanoid project, a 4 year research project coordinated by Marco Dorigo and funded by the Commission of the European Union. ARGoS' official web site Computer simulation is a fundamental tool to aid the development and study of robotic systems. Existing simulation packages for multi-robot systems do not provide the flexibility, scalability, and computational efficiency necessary to deal with the challenges posed by the Swarmanoid project. Therefore, we have designed and implemented the ARGoS, a novel continuous-time simulator for general multi-robot simulation that includes full support for the simulation of the three different types of robots-- eye-bots, hand-bots and foot-bots--composing the swarmanoid.b ARGoS was the official simulator of the Swarmanoid project and is currently the main robot simulation tool in the ASCENS project. ARGoS' is the result of the joint effort of all the partner labs involved. Carlo Pinciroli and his colleagues from the IRIDIA-ULB lab were responsible for the main design and development of the architecture, while the other labs (IDSIA-SUPSI, LIS-EPFL, LARAL-ISTC) contributed with new plug-ins and bug fixes. |
ARGoS' official web site Computer simulation is a fundamental tool to aid the development and study of robotic systems.
Existing simulation packages for multi-robot systems do not provide the flexibility, scalability, and computational efficiency necessary to deal with the challenges posed by the Swarmanoid project.
Therefore, we have designed and implemented the ARGoS, a novel continuous-time simulator for general multi-robot simulation that includes full support for the simulation of the three different types of robots-- eye-bots, hand-bots and foot-bots--composing the swarmanoid.b ARGoS was the official simulator of the Swarmanoid project and is currently the main robot simulation tool in the ASCENS project.
ARGoS' is the result of the joint effort of all the partner labs involved. Carlo Pinciroli and his colleagues from the IRIDIA-ULB lab were responsible for the main design and development of the architecture, while the other labs (IDSIA-SUPSI, LIS-EPFL, LARAL-ISTC) contributed with new plug-ins and bug fixes.
AREXX Engineering manufacture and distribute a wide range of electronic products for hobby, professional and educational use.
Science Tech Robot links.
Future-Bots Robotic parts and systems and Vintage and New hard-to-find items including Integrated Circuits, CPU's, Memory, Linear Devices, Transistors, and more.
The ROVer Ranch An interactive, Web-based robotics workshop for assembling the hardware and instructions for a software robot to perform a mission in a virtual environment. Robot Activity Links. Other Robot Links.
Robot.org.uk This site is a guide for robot builders. There are lists of robotics books, magazines, CD-ROMs, kits, component suppliers, information sources and events.
Epanorama Robotics Links Epanorama web site, which is dedicated to offer information on electronics found from the web. Lot's or electronic, computer and other related links.
Zach's Cool Stuff. Where people come to expand their knowledge of electronics, robotics, and technology through hands-on projects (i.e., Building Cool Stuff).
Cool Robots at Dartmouth College Scalable, Solar-Powered, autonomous science platforms from the Antarctic.
Smart Robots Open Robot Network (ORN) members are improving and expanding upon the protocols, languages, applications, and technologies of the SR4 that support robot-to-robot and robot-to-person communication over the Internet.
The Robot Group was founded in the Spring of 1989 by a small group of Austin, TX artists and engineers who shared a common vision: utilizing technology to provide and explore new mediums for art.
Team Stupid Robots is dedicated to providing and supporting economical motor and motion control solutions for a wide variety industrial, research, hobby, and military/police applications. Robot Links
VMRP wall climbing robot able to climb walls
Tech-supplies The online shop for all your PICAXE, electronic, robotic and educational technology projects.
The Robix Rascal Classroom Robot Set
Robots Rule PC Robots Forum/Robot Forums - Community Robots Forums. This forum is dedicated to the discussion of PC controlled robots, androids, robotics, and robot hobbyists.
A Robot Club Forum Index More Forums
RoboteQ Embedded System and Motor Control Specialists.
Stepper Motor using the original floppy disk drive for IBM-PCs. (Quite a number of other similar links)
IFI Robotics The Art of Science and Control
Micro Dones GmbH. Development of robotic aerial vehicles. Production of rotary wing based VTOL MAV's. (VTOL = Vertical Take Off and Landing, MAV = Micro Aerial Vehicle).
The Robotics
Institute Robot
Programming Code. Robotics Institute Carnegie Mellon University.
Botball Store All proceeds from the Botball Store go to support educational robotics programs.
AVR and Robotics A collection of robot electronics information.
Mike's Electric Stuff High Voltage, Valves and other electrical stuff. Which is better, PIC or AVR ? Let's have a heated debate....
Robot-Crawler 6 legs servo Atmel controller Atmel Website
Larry Barello's AVR and Robotics
Neil's Hardware using Macxeno Items
Interfacing Discussion Group Archives
Make a Marker-Writing Robot out of an Old Inket printer and an iRobot Create
Micromagic Systems® Supply animatronic, robotic and puppet control systems and services to the film and television industry. Most recent projects include "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" and "Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban".
Silicon Chip Australia's electronics magazine, and is primarily directed to professionals, trades people and enthusiasts in the electronics, electrical, computer and related fields.
Stop the construction of Killer Robots It has been claimed that mass assembling an army of giant KILLER ROBOTS to destroy the world that we live. Sign a Petition to help stop this.
Engineering TV, an innovative online video program by engineers for engineers. Twice a week, each 5-8 minute episode shows cutting-edge technology in action and looks behind the scenes as today's engineers shape tomorrow's breakthroughs. Brought to you by the Penton Media Design and Electronics Engineering groups.
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| Japanese Two Legged Fighting Robots | RoboGames humanoid smack-down |
RoboGames 2008 Watching the humanoid battles.
A Technical Guide To Building Fighting Robots
The Fighting Robot Association
Robot Solutions LLC A source for high quality PMDC motor controls and accessories. We have motor controllers for all types of motors and Battlebots.
RealTimeBattle is a programming game, in which robots controlled by programs are fighting each other. The goal is to destroy the enemies, using the radar to examine the environment and the cannon to shoot.
Cool Robots (My Robot can beat up your Robot)
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The Farrell Robotics Humanoids which will be competing at the 2007 RoboGames can be previewed here. For a higher resolution video please go to Farrell Robotics Humanoids |
| Robot Pro Wrestling 10 - Main Event Tempusmaster, Robot Dreams YouTube Channel | ||
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The Main Event at Dekinnoka 10! Robot Pro Wrestling featured Saaga versus Monster. |
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3D Printer MakeBot and 3D Printing MakeBot also see 3D Printers. Three dimensional printers. Printing Physical Objects. Making things by printing them out. Fast prototype, fast prototyping
Robot Operating System, (ROS), provides libraries and tools to help software developers create robot applications. It provides hardware abstraction, device drivers, libraries, visualizers, message-passing, package management, and more. Other Computer Operating System. ROS is a community effort, with many institutions contributing to its development. Much of the underlying platform is being developed by Willow Garage and Stanford. If you wish to find out about Willow Garage's role in developing ROS.
Willow Garage develops hardware and open source software for personal robotics applications.
| Bug Labs buildable electronics at CES 2009 (I/O attachment, could may be used for control of robotics). Watch all the video :) |
The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware.
The MicrosoftŽ Robotics Developer Studio (Microsoft RDS) is a WindowsŽ-based environment for academic, hobbyist, and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. Microsoft RDS includes a lightweight asynchronous services-oriented runtime, a set of visual authoring and simulation tools, as well as templates, tutorials, and sample code to help you get started. More Microsoft® Links.
PC Robots Forum/Robot Forums More Forums
Roboanimals in the lab From the automata of the ancient Greeks, to the curious mechanical inventions of the Age of Enlightenment, people have been creating robotic renderings of animals for centuries. It was only recently, however, that technology advanced enough to produce sophisticated robots that biologists can use for studying animal behavior. By mimicking specific behaviors with striking realism, these robots can stand in for (and fool) their living counterparts -- thus offering researchers the one thing that's often lacking in experimental setups that use live animals: control. "Having these robots allows animal behaviorists to try to tease apart the components of complex signals that are important for the individuals and for interactions between individuals," says Purdue University ecologist Esteban Fernández-Juricic, who has constructed robotic birds. Here are robot animals in action that help Fernandez-Juricic and other researchers learn more about animal behavior.
Artificial Muscle Research Initiative. Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, Department of Mechanical Engineering. College of Engineering, University of Maine. UMaine, Biomedical Engineering Initiative
The Artificial Muscle Research Institute (AMRI) and The Facioscapulohumeral Muscular Dystrophy (FSH) Society. Grassroots network of facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) patients, their families and research activists. The FSH Society harnesses the power and insight of a patient-driven model, as it was founded on a promise between two research scientists with FSHD never to let the disease be forgotten or neglected. We are a cause without borders
Open Hardware Licenses Open (source) hardware is a licensing agreement for electromechanical projects. That is to say, electronics and robotics and other mechanical projects are open hardware if they are documented and published under an open hardware license.
Control. Global online community of automation professionals.
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3D print from model see created Thingiverse The work continues at Embeddedjunkie Thingiverse This is a place to share digital designs that can be made into real, physical objects. Let's create a better universe, together!
More 3D Printers Make practable things in 3D by printing them at home
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MORP or Module Orientated Robotic Programming is a small framework designed to bring base implementations in order to easily connect modules such as a NXT or Bioloid Robot. It provides its own scripting languages called 'morp' dedicated to robot programming. More Programming Languages
RoSH, (Restriction of Hazardous Substances), also known as Lead-Free. RoHS Directive 2002/95/EC restricts the use of six hazardous materials found in electrical and electronic products. All applicable products in the EU market after July 1, 2006 must pass RoHS compliance. RoHS impacts the entire electronics industry.
WEEE, (Waste from Electrical and Electronic Equipment). WEEE Directive 2002/96/EC mandates the treatment, recovery and recycling of electric and electronic equipment (90% ends up in landfills). All applicable products in the EU market after August 13, 2006 must pass WEEE compliance and carry the "Wheelie Bin" sticker.
Nanobots, NanoRobots, Nanotechnolgy. Dangers of Nanotechnology. Is Nanotechnology dangerous?
Electronics, Electronic components and Electronics Circuits.
3D Printers. Three dimensional printers. Printing Physical Objects. Making things by printing them out. Fast prototype, fast prototyping
Computer Numerically Controlled, CNC
Hardware Guides, BIOS, Drivers, DLL files and Peripherals
RFID, Radio Frequency ID, Radio Frequency IDentification
Operating Systems and Graphical User Interfaces. Windows Visa/XP, Linux, Apple, BeOS, etc.
Mill Engine. Engineering and Mechanical Portal. Engineering links, Mechanical links, engineers, machines, engines. Civil Engineering, architecture, construction, transportation, etc...
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